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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 6:15 PM To: John Brockman Subject: Re: EDGE Master Class 2015 on Superforecasting: download PDF proofs of Phil Tetlock's new book last year, at the last minute the women said no eps=ein. . am i going to have the same issue again. no probl=m as you know. i am not sensitvie, but ... On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:09 PM, =ohn Brockman te > wrote: JE, The Master Class is shaping up as one of the most consequential EDGE events=of the last 20 years, the one you don't want to miss. Very important f=r you to be there. Hope you can make it. Best regards, JB l ctea m=bile p.s. Interesting dinner this week with Manny Roman. Do you know him well??<=r> June 22 San Francisco - Four Seasons June 26 Palo Alto - Westin Hotel June 29 New York "Philip Tetlock is one of the very, very best minds in the social scie=ces today. He has come up with one brilliant idea after another, and super=orecasting is no exception. Everyone agrees that the way to know if an ide= is right is to see whether it accurately predicts the future. But w=ich ideas, which methods, which people have an actual, provable track reco=d of non-obvious predictions vindicated by the course of events? The answe=s will surprise you, and have radical implications for politics, policy, j=urnalism, education, and even epistemology—how we can best gain kn=wledge about the world we live in." - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor, Harvard; Author,T HE SE=SE OF STYLE; THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE "Philip Tetlock is the world expert on a vital subject. Superforeca=ting is the wonderful story of how he and his research team got ordinary p=ople to beat experts in a very serious game. It is also a manual for think=ng clearly in an uncertain world. Read it." —Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of TH=NKING FAST AND SLOW A SHORT COURSE IN SUPERFORECASTING WITH PHILIP E. TETL=CK http://edge.org/edge-master-class-2015 EFTA_R1_01620410 EFTA02496097  user id: edge_access password: edgeaccess When: 5pm Friday, July 31 - Noon, Sunday, August=2nd Where: Spring Mountain Vineyard, St. Helena, Napa Hotel: Harvest Inn, St. Helena, Napa NEW! - Now Available at the above link For Downloading=- Advance Reading Edition SUPERFORECASTING: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PREDICTION (p=blication date September 29) By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner (Uncorrected Proofs - Do Not Circulate) You are confirmed for the event. See instructions for booking your room dir=ctly with the hotel and act now as reservations close July 3rd. And please=reconfirm with me asap that you will be joining us. [email protected] 260 Fifth Avenue 4;e=A0tel. New York, NY 10001 <tel: please not= The information contained in this communication is confidentia=, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information,=and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property o= JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communicatio= or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you=have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately=by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]=> , and destroy this communi=ation and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all=rights reserved 2 EFTA_R1_01620411 EFTA02496098